
In drawing- both figures and trees, it is well to begin with the simplest forms; the figures without the adornment of clothes or even flesh, the trees without foliage.

medium except the brush. Their significance lies in the fact that the principal lines in each scene are made with strokes in the same general direction. This does not apply, of course, to the details. In the upper sketch, the prevailing lines are vertical; in the middle scene, the lines are horizontal, while in the bottom scene, most of the lines are oblique.